Re: PSA pt 1: for better videoconferencing at home on slow links

[Michael Thomas <[e-mail]>]

Dave asked to try this on my openwrt router at home. this is with SQM on 
which got A A A

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/62830190

this is SQM off and it got a C for bufferbloat and a B overall

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/62830524

Mike

On 4/25/20 10:37 AM, Dave Taht wrote:
> for some reason I am not getting any ietf mailing list mail. too many
> useful links in the last one? :/
>
> How bad is your dslreports test (send link privately if you like)
>
> For openwrt: you need to install luci-app-sqm on openwrt for a gui and
> the related kernel modules. You need to do a bit of testing.
>
> opkg update
> opkg install luci-ssl luci-app-sqm # I pull in the full ssl gui as well.
>
> see configuration guide:
> https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/traffic-shaping/sqm
>
> as for autoconf, well, if ISPs shared their actual up/down rates and
> encapsulations with their users with a standard message (there is one
> appearing for pppoe), it would be a better world. Those ISPs
> optimizing their networks dynamically should also be providing a
> regular update to their users over a std api, IMHO.
>
> There's been some really cool work recently on getting good graphs of
> latency, loss, and marking, out of collectd and sch_cake:
>
> https://forum.openwrt.org/t/sqm-reporting/59960/28
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